Honoring Mentors of Distinction

Every few years, the Women's Caucus for Political Science (WCPS) issues a call to its members to identify people who have acted as their mentors in the process of becoming and remaining a political scientist. Everyone wins in this competition, since the only requirement for honoring a nominee is that a letter of explanation and commendation accompany the nomination. During 1992-93, the WCPS received 35 nominations from 34 members. An award ceremony for the mentors was held during the WCPS business meeting at the APSA convention, and was followed by a reception for honorees and members of the Caucus. My citation consisted entirely of quotations from letters of nomination, some of which follow. They give a sense as nothing else can of how important mentoring is to women in particular and to the discipline as a whole, how much work it entails, and how gratifying it is to the recipient

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